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APPLIOL'HOI FILED Ill. 28, 1908.

Patented Nov. 8. 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT DUCKWORTH, 0F LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 DRAPER GOMPAN Y, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3; 19085 Application fled January 98, 190B. lntlalflo. 413,119.

To-all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALnnn'r Dnoxwonrn, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Lowell, county of Middlesex, State of Mamachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Attachments for Spinning-Frames, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing repl resenting like parts.

his invention as for its object the production of an attachment for spinningframes designed to hold in bulk travelers used on the rin s of the frames, the travelers being contain in a suitable holder which can be moved manually to discharge a few of the travelers into a shallow cup or an from which they are removed as needed.

y means of this device the travelers are kept in bulk in a convenient place on the spinning-frame and waste in their use is prevented.

The various novel features of the invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure l is a side elevation of the attachment embodying one form of my invention, a portion 0 the cup or pan being broken out 5 F' 2 is aright hand elevation of the device 5 own in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the holder or hopper, showing the closure therefor and the outlet for the travelers when the holder is moved to dischar osition; Fig. 4 is a cross-section of tlie ho er on the line Fig. 3.

In the present embodiment of my invention I provide a shallow cup or pan 1 having a lateral extension 2 and an upright, trans verse ear 3 on the extension, the latter being adapted to be secured to a convenient part of e frame A, Fig. 1, of the spinnm frame by means of a screw inserted througfil a. hole 4, see dotted lines 1, the cup or pan being thereby held in horizontal position.

Upon the ear 3 I secure by screws 5 the upright shank 6 of an overhangi and prefera-b y transversely arched arm extended above the an and having its outer end downturned at 3. To said end I attach, as by a screw 9, a. depending bearing 10 having its bore in horizontal allncment with a hole 11, see dotted lines Fig. I, in the shank 6, for a purpose to be described.

A hopper or holder is herein shown as a e linder- 12, preferably a casting, havin a 0 used? ends 13 and provided with cum 5 14, 15, which arerotatably insert in the hole 11 and; limb 1 he. ends 0 the hopper preventing undue endwise movement of the hopper. The cylinder is longitudinally slotted from end, to end, and'normally the openi ,thus. formed is closed by-a cover 16 notcbe at its ends at 17 to receive the shanks of retaining,

10, respectively, bosses screws 18 which take into the end of the hopper, and the slot is widened alon one edge to leave a narrow, elongated disc rge opening 19, Figs. 1, 2 and 4.

The ends 13 may be thickened, as at 20, to form a better support for the screws, and a longitudinal rib 21 18 formed on the interior of t e be per op osite the slot, to act as a counterba anoe. at is, normally the counterwe' ht will operate to retain the hopper in position with the discharge opening 19 uppermost and under the overhanging arm 7, and if the hopper is turned on its journals the counterweight will return it to normal which the hopper can be conveniently turned. The cover 16 is removed and the hopper is filled with a uantity of travelers, in bulk, after which t e cover is replaced and fastened.

When the spinner requires one or more traveler's he grasps the nut 22 and revolves the hopper 12 to turn the discharge opening 19 downward, whereupon one or more travelers will drop outinto the pan, but onl u. few of the travelers at most will be charged, owing to the character of the openahe discharged travelers are picked out of the pan and used as needed, the bulk of the gavelegs fiaatained in the hopper and ettere mscatteri orsi' ovgr the liooi. ng p mg As only a few of the travelers will be held in the pan 1 at any time the operative will be more careful in their use and will not have the opportunity to waste them, as is now the case.

The bearing 10 is detachably secured to the end 8 of the overhanging arm in order to readily assemble the parts of the devi the 'ournals 14 and 15 being fixedly secure to t c hopper.

The overhang' arm protects the discharge opening m the entrance of lint d ufi. Ha fully described my invention,

5 what I c aim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:--

1. In an attachment for sp nmng-frames, a shallow, horizontal pan having an attaching extension, means connected with and lo- 10 cated above the pan to rotatably sustain a mylindrieal hopper at the centers of its ends, said ho per being adapted to receive travelers in all: and having an and narrow discha opening of width, a

16 cover detaohab y secured to the hopper and 20 erative.

2. In an attachment for spinning-frames, a o lindrical be per to receive travelers in bu! and mam y rotatable about a central horizontal axis and having a slnblike, elongated discharge open' of fixed width in its side, means to normal y retain the hopper with its discharge opening uppermost, a an beneath the hopper, and an arm mom on the pan and overhanging the hopper, said arm protecti the discha e opening from the entrance 0 lint when t e hopper 15 normally positioned.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT DUCKWORTH.

Witnesses:

Gnonor. D. Knmann, Annow A. BYAM. 

